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Mercury News' Santa Clara and San Mateo counties high school sports blogSat, 29 Oct 2016 05:24:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: Robert Smithhttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2010/02/17/1980s-all-mercury-news-football-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-39318
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:49:24 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1749#comment-39318I agree the MHAL had a lot of talent in 81, 82,83 Era. I remember O/L Cornell Brown , RB Eric Montgomery . Mt Pleasant had WR Kemmy Wiliams, RB Tony Miller, LB Marty Arreleano, Silver Creek had WR Tim People’s , QB Jaquin Gariel , D/L Dave Price, RB Joe Westly , DB Larry Weldon, Yerba Buena had WR & DB Kenny Taylor (Chicago Bears 1986 SB Champs) , QB Don Lema , LB Rusty Hernandez ,Jethro Franklin (NFL D/L player &Coach) Andrew Hill had WR Damon Drake , Oak Grove had QB Shannon Morningweg, DB Donny Witton, Danny Brown , Overfelt had RB Richard Alameda , I know there was a lot of talent back the with a lot of speed. This is a tribute to all the players who’s names may have been missed.
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Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:23:28 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1749#comment-20530I had the pleasure of playing in the old MHAL, class of 1984, Mount Pleasant High School ( 83 season). I Believe the talent we played against every Friday was second to none. Corny Ross from YB, Travis Law from Hill, Andre Riley from the IHS Sixers, D. Cooks Santa Teresa, Cedric Adams Overfelt, etc.some of the best RB’s ever to come out of the area. WR’s with speed, Lines, DB’s, LB’s, DL Jethro Franklin, YB Pellum McDaniels Silver Creek, Tim Ryan.I got recruited to go to Sonoma State based on my ability to play LB against talent like this. San Jose is very underrated in HS football, and still is to this day in my opinion.
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Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:09:18 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1749#comment-19394Albert King’s numbers came against horrible teams at the time: San Jose High, Pioneer, Lincoln. All 3 of thos comibined in 1986 prolly won 3 games (and that was by beating each other). King’s stats vs. the good teams took a big hit. King was good but his numbers were fattened up by running the ball vs. the sisters of the meek.
]]>By: GuitarDad13http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2010/02/17/1980s-all-mercury-news-football-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-19352
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 04:01:42 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1749#comment-19352In 1986 Albert King (Gunderson) was The KING of the S.T.A.L.. He was (at that time) the only two time 1st team all Leaguer that was invited to the All Star game (North South). He was also a 3 season varsity letter-man, in football. He 1986 played in the North South All Star game and (because of the coaches son!!!!) was bought into the game late (tied) and caught 15, and 40 yard passes to score the go ahead touchdown. Second half, collected the first series punt, ran it back 40 yards to put the team in go ahead scoring position. There simply was no better player on the field ever, at the time.

He still has G.H.S. Football scoring records and has the most offensive yards of ANY receiver at G.H.S. ever.
Albert King: receiver, kickoff and field goal kicker

]]>By: Mike S.http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/2010/02/17/1980s-all-mercury-news-football-teams/comment-page-1/#comment-15395
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:45:38 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/hssports/?p=1749#comment-15395Just a couple of comments on people who I saw play in the late ’70s and 1980 in the CCS:

*Do people remember that Jeff Arrillaga kicked and made a 50- yard field goal in the CCS title game in 1980? Arrillaga was a tremendous football player(at defensive back, wide receiver and place-kicker/punter).
*Nick Holt was a tremendous linebacker for Bellarmine.
*Lindsay Meggs was a great quarterback for Saratoga(class of 1980); he now is the head baseball coach for University of Washington;
*Chris Hampton of Monta Vista was a monster! He played linebacker(and I think tight end) and he was just a beast. His arms looked like thighs and his neck looked like Lou Ferrigno’s. He went on to play linebacker for Cal(and I believe he started as a true freshman);
*Dave Lynch of Saratoga was a great two-way player (guard and linebacker);
*Marty Morhinwheg was a great quarterback for Oak Grove in the late ’70s.

These guys left off this list for some weird reason. This guys are all in the picture for the San Jose Mercury All Merc Team. Willie Harper was the Player of the Year as a Junior. Sean Dawkins was the head of the class, Homestead was loaded that year.
1989 Aragon’s
WR-DB Jimmy Pryor University of Utah
LB-RB Devo Finianganofo, University of Utah
DL-OL T.J. Ewing Eastern Washington